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On the area of the former ship yard Avondale Shipyards a logistics center will rise
Huntington Ingalls Industries has yielded the plant to the Avondale Marine
October 5, 2018
The navalmeccanico group American Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has yielded to the Avondale Marine own ship yard Avondale Shipyards that is situated on the Mississippi river, to 20 miles from New Orleans, and that the activity at the end of 2014 has stopped. Avondale Marine is joint venture constituted by American T. Parker Host Inc., that he is founded in the 1923 and work mainly as harbour marine and terminalista agency, and from the compatriot Hilco Redevelopment Partners, real estate society of Global the Hilco group that takes care of the commercialization and reconversion of industrial and logistic areas.
On the area, of about 103 hectares, a new logistics center and intermodal will rise. "For generations - it has explained the president and managing director of T. Parker Host, Adam Anderson - Avondale Shipyars has been reason of pride for the community generating places of work and economic development. Our team will take advantage of its potential one transforming the ship yard in a total logistics center for the intermodal commerce". The change of the destination of use of the situated one was authorized to the end of September within an agreement undersigned also from the Port of New Orleans.
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